Anyone got access to DSLAM stats?

As per title, I think my DSLAM (Huawei 288) might be getting very busy and wondering if anyone has any powers to look at the utilisation levels or how many connections there is on it...

I know it serves around 315 premises but wondering how many lines are actually in sync.

Would also be interesting to know how many of the 6 line cards are installed or in use... I know there was a generic contractor there a while ago doing some work under a tent which I'm assuming was capacity upgrades, just wondering if more capacity is require or if its maxed out now.

From a quick dabble on a calculator I have worked out that if 288 line where going fro it at the same time the over 6 Gigabit line cards no one should get less than 20Mbps (all being level)

Re: Anyone got access to DSLAM stats?

The people that can may have more chance if you tell them the postcode and cabinet number .

The indispensable man or woman passes from the scene, and what happens next is more or less the same thing as was happening before.
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Re: Anyone got access to DSLAM stats?

Just FYI the big Huawei has 2 slots for upstream interface boards and 4 x 1Gb ports on each board. Openreach guarantee 30Mb per 80Mb port.

EDIT: Forgot, it also has 4 x 1Gb ports on the control board as well.

Regardless 20Mb/s per user is about 20 times what is required so it's all good.

I only know of one person on here that may be able to advise on how many ports are in use, however I can tell you that exactly zero cabinets in the country at last check had any backhaul capacity issues.

If the cabinet has never gone unavailable it's probably not all that busy.

Edit: Crawley 70 went into service on 2nd March 2011, and at that time was believed to serve 305 premises. That number should be taken with a pinch of salt as it's a snapshot from a while ago.

Re: Anyone got access to DSLAM stats?

Edit: Crawley 70 went into service on 2nd March 2011, and at that time was believed to serve 305 premises. That number should be taken with a pinch of salt as it's a snapshot from a while ago.

I know been going a fair while thats for sure, take up on it has been very slow though... when I was connected in Feb/Mar I was 67th "I think" but since then I think many have absconded from Virgin (which used to be very popular locally) due to issues we've discussed before.

Word from the Openreach engineer who sorted BB was that locally to me 41 was most popular and catered for most lines, even addresses within very close proximity to 70 are said be served by 41, having a look it said to serve around 560 premises but I believe theres some new builds up the road from that one too so maybe closer too 600 now.

Also, I've been wondering if during periods where crosstalk might be heavy could it cause intermittent speed reductions without reducing sync/SNR, specially if the line in question is fast path and has no error protection/correction in place..

I'm pretty sure I might have a [censored] length of aluminium slowing my connection down too, currently my connection is "just" hanging onto the low end of my BT Wholesale estimate, I don't think it will take long before it drops below, though getting anything done about it could be interesting.

Re: Anyone got access to DSLAM stats?

Crosstalk doesn't really come and go unless a bunch of people are turning modems off at times. For noise, be it crosstalk or something else, to slow download performance there would need to be a degree of packet loss. This would likely show as reduced SNR and error counters incrementing.

As of June this year from what I can tell your cabinet was still on its 2nd 48 port card. Hopefully someone with more up to date information will be by

Re: Anyone got access to DSLAM stats?

Openreach guarantee 30Mb per up to 80Mb customer, 15Mb per 80Mb customer, and bandwidth is made available to hit that target.. There's no availability per card, all bandwidth is spread across all cards.

Regardless what they provision is more than enough; the heaviest usage recorded by an ISP in the UK is around 1Mb/s per customer peak, and there are no cabinets with any congestion on their backhaul.

Openreach publish regular lists of the busiest cabinets in the country and indicate that precisely zero frames are dropped on any.

Re: Anyone got access to DSLAM stats?

Openreach guarantee 30Mb per up to 80Mb customer, 15Mb per 80Mb customer

Erm, which one is it?

So I was wrong to think the cards actually supply capacity from the E side and its actually that the cards allow for more lines to be connected, that being said what is the total backhaul availability or capabilities if you know?

If there where any capacity issues, would they be on the equipment in the exchange and which equipment, would it be the equipment serving the DSLAMs or the backhaul; for each individual CP?